To bow and sue for grace
With suppliant knee. --Milton.
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2. (Theol.) The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as
distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His
mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of
acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor.
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And if by grace, then is it no more of works. --Rom.
xi. 6.
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My grace is sufficicnt for thee. --2 Cor. xii.
9.
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Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.
--Rom. v. 20.
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By whom also we have access by faith into this grace
wherein we stand. --Rom. v.2
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13. pl. A play designed to promote or display grace of
motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one
player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of
each. Called also {grace hoop} or {hoops}.
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{Days of grace} (Com.), the days immediatelyfollowing the
day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are
allowed to the debtor or payer to make payment in. In
Great Britain and the United States, the days of grace are
three, but in some countries more, the usages of merchants
being different.

{Grace cup}.
(a) A cup or vessel in which a health is drunk after
grace.
(b) A health drunk after grace has been said.
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The grace cup follows to his sovereign's
health. --Hing.

{Grace drink}, a drink taken on rising from the table; a
grace cup.
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To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the
custom of the grace drink, she having established it
as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till
grace was said was rewarded with a bumper. --Encyc.
Brit.

GRACE AFTER MEALS — (Heb. בִּרְכַּת הַמָּזוֹן, Birkat ha Mazon), a central feature of the liturgical service in the Jewish home. It is considered to be a biblical ordinance, inferred from the verse Thou shalt eat and be satisfied and bless the Lord thy God for the… … Encyclopedia of Judaism